Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-30
ECHOES FROM THE ANTE-ROOM
Items Of Interest to the Members
of the Secret Organizations.
GENERAL PYTHlAN NEWS.
The X. of H.-The A. o. U. w.
Doings Of the Knights OF
HOnOr-General Sub
Rosa Gossip.
GENERAL PYTHIAN NEWS

ONE OF the youngest and most prosperous
knights of Pythias lodges in Nebraska is En-
terprise, No. 79 of South Omaha. In May
1887 this lodge was organized with twenty
eight charter members. To-day it has men,
bership of sixty, and is in decidedly pros
porous condition. Arrangements are being
made for new and commodious hall to be
built by the lodge,
UNIFORM RANKS with secret organizations
are becoming popular. There have been com
manderies of the uniform rank Knights of
Honor organized in Boston, New York Pitts
field, Mass, Louisville, KY, and Dayton, o.
AN UNPLEASANT task has been set down for
the United States marshal at St. Louis, Miss
Phoebe w. Couzzins, the daughter and sue
cessor in Office of the late marshal, j. E. ID.
Couzins. While Marshal COuzins was con-
fined to his bed, unable to attend to business,
his able and loving daughter, Miss Phoebe,
attended to it for him The late marshal was
a member of Missouri lodge, No. II, of the
Independent Order of Odd d-Fellows and also
of the Odd Fellows Mutual Aid association.
The last named body is composed solely of
members of the l. o. O. F., but is separate
incorporated body. The benefit derived from
membership is II 900, to be paid the family
at the death of a member. During Marshal
Couzin's illness member from each body
called regularly each week, paid the weekly
benefits and made their reports. 1t
was on one of these visits that the visitor In
formed Miss Phoebe Couzins of dues accruing
in both societies. She instructed him to re-
tain an amount sufficient to pay both dues,
which he did. The young man departed and
the matter passed out of Miss Couzins' mind,
until after the death of her father, when she
received notice that he had been suspended
from the Mutual Aid association for non-pay
ment of dues. Inquiry brought out the fact
that the young man did not fulfill his promise
of paying the dues and the Mutual Aid asso-
citation now holds to the suspension. The ques-
tion of payment is now in debate and there is
some possibility of its being paid without re-
course to measures which Miss Couzns says
she would dislike very much to take against
the association. j. f. ID. Couzins was a char
ter member of the Missouri lodge /. o. D. F.,
organized in St. Louis in lS45. He was also
one of the organizers OF the Mutual Aid asso-
citation, and never, as long as he was men,
Der, did he fall behind in his dues.
The LOCAL lodge of the brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen is making extensive arrange
ments for their annual ball, which will take
place November II, at the Exposition hall.
The affair will be pleasant one aud all who
| attend with the expectation Of happy time
| will not be disappointed.
RurHvES DIVISION McCook, U.R. X. ofP.,
| is making extensive arrangements for their
| first annual ball and banquet, which occurs
| on Thanksgiving eve Everything will be
| conducted in an elegant manner, and the
| boys promise that their INITIAL Dali snail DC
one of which they can be proud, The
| division is not putting in much time drilling
| these cool evenings, but will wait until the
spring time, and then get in shape TO take
| their place in the first regiment and accom-
| pany it 10 Cincinnati next June.
| -.
OK THE Twenty-first day of October, 1859
| the prophet Mohammed, after thirteen years
| Of preaching his then new religion, fled tc
| the city of Yathred, which, after Mo
hammed's victorious war against the Koaeisl
| was named Madinat en- Nabl, the City of the
Prophet, or, as it is known in history, Mari
] nat The celebration Of the event is duly OBJ